back to the salt mines
вернуться к чему-либо с большой неохотой; например к работе, которую не хочется делать
The work was tedious; they finished their coffee and went back to the salt mines.
Другие идиомы:
- back up (someone or something)
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- salt (something) away
- break the back of (something)
- back and forth
- back down (from someone or something)
- stab (someone) in the back
- back to square one
- rub salt in (someone's) wound
- worth one's salt
- off one's back
- behind one's back
- back in circulation
- behind (someone's) back
- pat on the back